India
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
AZB & Partners | Gateway’s acquisition of significant minority stake in Mrs. Bectors Food Specialities Limited | $160 million | Gateway Partners | Sachin Mehta (Partner)
Vinit Nalavadi, Avantika Gupta (Associates) |
AZB & Partners | ICICI Bank’s sale of 9% equity stake to FAL | $240 million | FAL Corporation | Rajendra Barot (Partner)
Arvind Ramesh (Associate) |
AZB & Partners | Sale by HDFC to ERGO of approximately 23% equity stake of HDFC in HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company Limited | $173 million | HDFC | Nilanjana Singh (Partner)
Rishikesh Desai (Associate) |
AZB & Partners | Acquisition of minority interest in Manifolde Technologies |
| Investors: Nityanand Bhat, Sonal Seth | Chetan Nagendra (Partner)
Apoorv Garg (Associate) |
AZB & Partners | Acquisition of IBS Software Services by Blackstone’s Techware Investments |
| IBS Software Services |
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AZB & Partners | WMF Group’s acquisition of 51% stake in Coffee Day Global Limited |
| WMF Group GMBH | Darshika Kothari (Partner)
Sugandha Asthana, Tulika Sinha, Ashika Dabholkar (Associates) |
AZB & Partners | Star India’s acquisition of MAA Television |
| Star India Private Limited | Bhavi Sanghvi (Partner)
Divya Mundra, Roxanne Anderson (Associates) |
AZB & Partners | Takasago Thermal Engineering’s acquisition of significant minority stake in Integrated Cleanroom Technologies |
| Takasago Thermal Engineering | Shameek Chaudhuri (Partner)
Manan Mehta (Associate) |
AZB & Partners | AXA’s stake increase in BAL and BAGI |
| Bharti Insurance Holdings Private Limited and its affiliates | Ajay Bahl, Gautam Saha, Sachin Mehta (Partners)
Dushyant Bagga (Associate) |
Clifford Chance | GMR Infrastructure’s subordinated foreign currency convertible bond | $300 million | Lead managers: Nomura, J.P. Morgan, Axis Capital, Edelweiss
| Rahul Guptan (Partner)
Gareth Deiner (Counsel)
Shashwat Tewary, Korobi Gogoi (Associates) |
Clifford Chance | Alkem Laboratories Ltd's IPO | $200 million |
| Rahul Guptan (Partner)
Shashwat Tewary (Associate) |
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas | Acquisition of IBS Software Services by Blackstone’s Techware Investments |
| IBS Software Services | Reeba Chacko, Nagavalli G (Partners)
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Debevoise & Plimpton | Capital International’s acquisition of a minority stake in Mankind Pharma | $200 million | Capital International | E. Drew Dutton (Partner)
Parveet Singh Gandoak (Associate)
Philip Rohlik, Andy Y. Soh (Counsel) |
Desai & Diwanji | Gateway’s acquisition of significant minority stake in Mrs. Bectors Food Specialities Limited | $160 million | Exiting promoters |
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Khaitan & Co | Acquisition of IBS Software Services by Blackstone’s Techware Investments |
| Moveo Systems Private Limited |
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Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas | Acquisition of IBS Software Services by Blackstone’s Techware Investments |
| Blackstone Capital Partners | Raghubir Menon (Partner)
Anirban Bhattacharya, Deepa Rekha, Radhika Chavda, Brinda Shroff (Associates) |
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas | Gateway’s acquisition of significant minority stake in Mrs. Bectors Food Specialities Limited | $160 million
| Mrs. Bectors Food Specialities | Raghubir Menon (Partner)
Gaurav Dayal, Aritra Roy, Deepa Rekha, Taranjeet Singh (Associates) |
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas | India leg of CSC Computer Sciences International’s acquisition of Xchanging |
| GBP 480 million ($721 million)
| Yogesh Chande, Ashni Roy, Ashoo Gupta, Aparna Mehra (Partners) Samidha Tyagi, Malek-Ul-Ashtar Shipchandler, Neha Shaw, Oscar D’sa, Sandeep Chilana, Charu Mehta, Meghna Rajadhakshya, Daryush Marfatia, Aurica Bhattacharya, Apurv Gupta, Pallavi Kishore, Salonee Kulkarni (Associates) |
Nepal
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
Morrison & Foerster | Axiata Group's acquisition of mobile phone operator Ncell Private Limited | $1.365 billion | Axiata Group | Jake Robson (Partner) |
Singapore
Firm | Deal | Value | Client | Lawyer(s) involved |
Allen & Gledhill | Equity fund raising by Ascendas Real Estate Investment Trust |
| Ascendas Funds Management | Jerry Koh, Chua Bor Jern, Teh Hoe Yue (Partners) |
Allen & Gledhill | Perennial Real Estate Holdings Limited's offer of 3-year 4.65% bonds due 2018 | S$300 million ($213 million) | DBS, The Trust Company (Asia) Limited
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Allen & Gledhill | BHG Retail REIT's IPO | S$394.2 million ($280 million) |
| Jerry Koh, Chua Bor Jern, Long Pee Hua, Teh Hoe Yue (Partners)
Wu Zhiyou,Jonathan Lee, Chiam Yee Sheng, Sean Lee (Associates) |
Allen & Gledhill | Update of Keppel REIT's sale of perpetual bonds | S$150 million ($106 million) | The Bank of New York Mellon | Daselin Ang (Partner) |
WongPartnership | Perennial Real Estate Holdings Limited's offer of 3-year 4.65% bonds due 2018 | S$300 million ($213 million) | Perennial Real Estate Holdings Limited | Hui Choon Yuen, Goh Gin Nee (Partners) |
WongPartnership | Update of Keppel REIT's sale of perpetual bonds | S$150 million ($106 million) |
| Hui Choon, Yuen, Trevor Chuan, Goh Gin Nee (Partners) |
WongPartnership | BHG Retail REIT's IPO | S$394.2 million ($280 million) | DBS Bank Ltd | Colin Ong (Partner) |
Rajah & Tann | Update of Keppel REIT's sale of perpetual bonds | S$150 million ($106 million) | Keppel REIT | Ng Sey Ming (Partner)
Ho Mei Shi (Associate) |
Rodyk & Davidson | BHG Retail REIT's IPO | S$394.2 million ($280 million) | Trustee | Nicholas Chong (Partner)
Tong Junming (Associate) |
Shearman & Sterling | BHG Retail REIT's IPO | S$394.2 million ($280 million) | Financial advisers, issue manager, bookrunner, underwriter | Matthew BERSANI (Partner)
Jeremy Wang, Jean Foo (Associates) |